Distributed multimedia systems

نویسنده

  • Sape J. Mullender
چکیده

Mullender, S. Multimedia systems will allow professionals worldwide to collaborate more effectively and to travel substantially less. But for multimedia systems to be effective, a good systems infrastructure is essential. In particular, support is needed for global and consistent sharing of information, for long-distance, high-bandwidth multimedia interpersonal communication, greatly enhanced reliability and availability, and security. These systems will also need to be easily usable by lay computer users. In this paper we explore the operating system support that these multimedia systems must have in order to do the job properly.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Future Generation Comp. Syst.

دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1992